If the first period was breathless, it was nothing on the second, in which City had no answer to the frentic intensity of the home side.

Roberto Firmino shrugged aside John Stones before deliciously chipping past Ederson to put the home side back in front, and minutes later Sadio Mane doubled their emphatic with an emphatic left-foot shot.

Ederson was soon at fault for Liverpool's fourth, his poor kick presenting Mohamed Salah with his 24th goal of the campaign.